Hi all, By now , anyone running a SIlverlight application Astoria Silverlight Client library in Firefox 3.0 would have seen a weird error about charsets. This blog post will describe the error and how to work-around it . Consider the following query : DataServiceQuery<Customers> customerQuery = from cus in context.Customers where cus.ID ==’ALFKI’ select cus;…

Download Source Code and Sample application : Excel’s Filter Dialog My GridView Filter Extender The above Screen Shots look promising , don’t they ?So, How would one go about building such a control ? Well, I have it laid out in front of you .1) Find all unique Strings in the…

Download Source and Example : Most of you must have heard about Astoria. Read More about it here , if you haven’t already :Microsoft Codename “Astoria”.The Astoria Team Blog : It’s a “Database in the cloud”, your db is hosted on the Web and you access it via REST -style URIs.I have written a ControlExtender…

Hello all , Today I grow a year older , I am now all of 26 !!! As return gifts to everyone, I am giving out a demo application that encompasses most of my knowledge about the AjaxControlToolkit Animation Extender. Here is a list of the Animations that are demo’d . Basic Animations Fade ReSize…

This is a common requirement I see among users of the accordion , How do I Open Accordion Panes OnMouseOver of the header and Not on header Click ? The answer is pretty simple . Lets walk through this : a) Setup your Accordion <ajaxToolkit:Accordion ID=”Accordion1″ runat=”server” ContentCssClass=”grey” FadeTransitions=”false” FramesPerSecond=”25″ TransitionDuration=”250″ HeaderCssClass=”dimgreen” EnableViewState=”true”> <Panes> ::::…

Consider a scenario wherein you have a lot of control Extenders on a page and you want to conduct operations on all instances Specific Extender or specific instances of an extender. We all know that we can reference certain instances of an Extender by using its BehaviorID and the $find function. Now , consider an implementation…

Hi all, This has come up time and again on the asp.net Ajax forums and has become the Top Voted issue for the AutoCompleteExtender Work Items . I had some time the other day and set upon to write a fix for this . How do you use it? 1) Attach a handler to…

An ignored / unknown / very useful feature of the animation Framework is that it allows you to control the animation as its playing. You can Play, Pause , Resume , Stop and Quit an Animation Instance by using appropriate methods in JavaScript. Setting up the Animation The Animation we will be playing is a…

HI , I was asked to work on the beta AjaxControlToolkit Patch Utility Tool from the Asp.Net AjaxControlToolkit Forums . My first fix , which allows the first result in a result set to be automatically selected ( if chosen to ) , has been made part of the codebase and will be in…